Video Games Live have just announced a bunch of new tour dates, and although the actual date and venue are currently TBA I noticed there’s a Melbourne, Australia show on the list. The show comes very highly recommended even for those who aren’t into videogames and includes the experience of seeing a live orchestra, interactive show, and pre-recorded videogame footage matched to the live show, as well as pre-show entertainment and meet-and-greets in an optional festival made available to ticket-holders at no additional cost. You can read a review by Drew ‘Gaiiden’ Sikora for a bit more information as well as checking out the official website. It comes highly recommended and I’d really like to go - is anyone interested in joining me assuming the dates and cost aren’t a major prohibitive issue once announced?
March 4, 2009
November 6, 2008
You know that I could use somebody
Alrighty, Bluenote’s end of year concert will be on the 13th and 14th (that’s a Saturday and Sunday; the second weekend) of December. Unless things are for some reason changed up drastically (which is extremely unlikely) there will be a Saturday afternoon show which tends to have most of the younger kids, solo acts, etc.; a Saturday evening show which tends to have most of the big band acts; and a Sunday arvo concert which has all the leftover stuff.
Come along for a look if you wanna see William, Shazzie and I performing, tickets are cheap and we’d appreciate the support.
Managing a pizza store - not for me. I wouldn’t mind the longer hours if they were timed better rather than taking up all my evenings and pretty much killing the weekend, but rostering like that doesn’t really seem achievable so I’ve decided I shan’t be signing the contract.
Nothing else of interest to report right now.
September 8, 2008
Opeth, and happenings.
Cara, William and myself went to see Opeth play at the Palace (formerly Metro) on Friday night. The performance was most triumphant. As time of posting interested parties can find a video of the performance on YouTube, although unfortunately the quality is extremely lacking and doesn’t nearly do them justice. For reference, the song in that particular recording sounds like this on the album. The support band were quite good, the venue was quite reasonable and not overly crowded, and the late night KFC after the concert was most enjoyable.
Next up for concerts is DragonForce in October.
Tropic Thunder was quite good, and we had the most unusual experience after seeing it of candle-lit dining in Nandos due to power failure. Fortunately for us they were already mostly done with preparing our food, and we’d long since escaped from the cinema (out of which many people were streaming).
That is all for now.
//ADENDUM: Some random guy taking photos at the Opeth concert got a shot of Cara and I that you can see here (full gallery). As usual I look terrible. Ah well.
April 8, 2008
Falling behind.
Ok, so it would seem I’m way off target. I do have some posts waiting to be published, but I don’t currently feel ready to do so and in the meantime I’ve missed the weekly or fortnightly update goal by a long shot. I’m also way behind with getting WGA up and running, to which I have the new slight complication that the group I was planning to buy my art from are probably closing down and going their seperate ways. I am fortunately in a position where this isn’t a significant setback, but it is still an irritation.
I’ve been getting back into my music properly again recently, which has been good, though due to on-and-off mild sickness my vocals have been even worse than normal lately.
For now that is all. In spite of the futility of such attempts in the past I’m attempting to establish something closer to a normal sleeping pattern (although in my case the established times are really just when I go to and get out of bed) than my current mess.
Updates soon - for real this time.
Oh, lastly, I recommend the band Red, especially to those of you who appreciate Linkin Park.